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Improved diagnosis of Parkinson's disease from a detailed olfactory phenotype
Ist Teil von
Annals of clinical and translational neurology, 2017-10, Vol.4 (10), p.714-721
Ort / Verlag
United States: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Objective
To assess the predictive potential of the complete response pattern from the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
Methods
We analyzed a large dataset from the Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders, a longitudinal clinicopathological study of health and disease in elderly volunteers. Using the complete pattern of responses to all 40 items in each subject's test, we built predictive models of neurodegenerative disease, and we validated these models out of sample by comparing model predictions against postmortem pathological diagnosis.
Results
Consistent with anatomical considerations, we found that the specific test response pattern had additional predictive power compared with a conventional measure – total test score – in Parkinson's disease, but not Alzheimer's disease. We also identified specific test questions that carry the greatest predictive power for disease diagnosis.
Interpretation
Olfactory ability has typically been assessed with either self‐report or total score on a multiple choice test. We showed that a more accurate clinical diagnosis can be made using the pattern of responses to all the test questions, and validated this against the “gold standard” of pathological diagnosis. Information in the response pattern also suggests specific modifications to the standard test that may optimize predictive power under the typical clinical constraint of limited time. We recommend that future studies retain the individual item responses for each subject, and not just the total score, both to enable more accurate diagnosis and to enable additional future insights.